Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the Sahara just around the corner in case there is not enough atmosphere in the picture itself, "Beau Geste" presents itself at the University Theatre this week for the approbation of the local moviegoers. As far as we personally are concerned there is atmosphere aplenty in the opus itself. After one has approached the deserted fort across a distinctly realistic movie desert, one is supplied with plenty of local color, French Foreign Legion social ethics, North Beery brutality and much besides which deflea enumeration...
...right . . . hardest blow of the fight . . . Gene beginning to wake up ... like a couple of wild animals . . . Gene's body red . . . hits Dempsey a terrific right to the body . . . Jack is groggy. . . . Jack leads hard left. . . . Tunney seems almost wobbling . . . they have been giving Dempsey smelling salts in his corner. . . . Some of the blows that Dempsey hits make this ring tremble. . . . Tunney is DOWN . . . down from a barrage . . . they are counting . . . six-seven?eight?...
...Announcer Graham McNamee could scarcely be expected to grasp immediately the technical detail here involved, through which Dempsey protested to the Illinois Boxing Commission that he had won the fight. Dempsey knocked Tunney down. By the rules of the contest he should have walked immediately to a neutral corner and waited until his antagonist arose or was counted out. Instead he stood over him; went to the wrong corner. Thus five seconds were lost before he reached the neutral corner and the actual count began over the prostrate Tunney. Tunney rose after the ninth second. A boxer is knocked...
Dorman: "If one of these were ever placed on a street corner the poor firemen would never sleep...
...Manter Hall Tutoring School will occupy its new quarters on the corner of Holyoke and Mount Auburn Streets on October 15, if the present plans for construction are carried out. The new building is architecturally in harmony with the structures recently built by the University...